{"id":1311,"date":"2016-07-11T10:21:50","date_gmt":"2016-07-11T10:21:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/?p=1311"},"modified":"2016-07-10T16:25:29","modified_gmt":"2016-07-10T16:25:29","slug":"understand-the-lords-will","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/2016\/07\/11\/understand-the-lords-will\/","title":{"rendered":"Understand the Lord\u2019s Will"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scripture: Ephesians 5: [17] Therefore do not be foolish, but understand what the Lord&#8217;s will is.<\/p>\n<p>Observation: I try to convince myself that some of the things I do should fit into God\u2019s will, when they are only selfish desires.  This morning instead of getting up and going to workout with my wife, I stayed in bed thinking the rest would be better.  God has a plan for me and I need to get this body strong to do his will.  I watch TV at night again thinking that it is rest, but it\u2019s nothing but laziness.  Sometimes when it comes to doing God\u2019s will I\u2019m a fool.<\/p>\n<p>Application: Make doing God\u2019s will the number 1 priority in my life.  That laziness, self desires or anything else hat doesn&#8217;t honor God must must be eliminated from my life.  Focus on getting myself healthy so I will be prepared when God wants me.<\/p>\n<p>Prayer: Dear Lord I need your strength to fulfill the purpose you have created me for.  Help me do your will.  I freely give you my life as a living sacrifice, may I glorify you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scripture: Ephesians 5: [17] Therefore do not be foolish, but understand what the Lord&#8217;s will is. Observation: I try to convince myself that some of the things I do should fit into God\u2019s will, when they are only selfish desires. This morning instead of getting up and going to workout with my wife, I stayed &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1312,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-devotional"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1311"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1311\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1313,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1311\/revisions\/1313"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}